Returning a rare orchid to the wild is a complex challenge, but if these scientists succeed, they’ll blaze a path for future reintroductions.

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the ...

But while Andrews and thousands of Angelinos were racing to evacuate, other people saw a financial opportunity. Using ...

The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding ...

Renderings of Goldendale pumped hydro project courtesy of Rye Development. Credit: Photo illustration by Luna Anna Archey/High Country News A pumped hydro-energy storage facility proposed outside of ...

What was the West like a thousand years ago, a million years ago — even a billion years ago? And how is that history still visible and consequential today? These were the driving questions behind the ...

Butte is ugly, the pamphlets and websites said. Ugly from the days of metal mining, from the reign of Montana’s Copper Kings. Lead-stained ground, air-blown arsenic, metals in the soil. Dingy bars, ...

That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

Staff and guests gather to receive boxes of donated blankets at the Warming Center, Bozeman, Montana’s only year-round homeless shelter. Credit: Will Warasila/High Country News Last year, a mass of ...

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